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IDTechEx: buying an autonomous electric car will feel more like buying a laptop than a car

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Source: IDTechEx What are the main concerns when buying a laptop? and turn it into a 3D map of the environment and identify all the vehicles and all the people around the vehicle. Automakers will buy an electric powertrain from one company and an autonomous system from another and bundle it into their branded packaging.

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Starting this year, Moscow will only buy electric buses

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Starting this year, by the decision of the Mayor of Moscow, we will not buy diesel buses, except for transportation in a special mode. Replacing one diesel bus with an electric bus reduces CO 2 emissions into the environment by 60.7 The city of Moscow, Russia is halting the purchase of diesel buses for its passenger transport fleet.

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Buy An EV & Fulfill Your New Year’s Resolutions

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Buying an EV can help you achieve those goals. Will you pledge to reduce your carbon footprint and to be a good global citizen when you make your New Year's resolutions?

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Lithia Motors buys 14 automobile dealerships from Precedence Auto Staff

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The purchase builds off Lithia’s tiny footprint within the Mid-Atlantic environment and provides the automobile store a large presence right through Virginia. The purchase additionally incorporated two buy-here, pay-here dealerships, two car purchasing facilities and an authorized used-vehicle pack, all in Virginia.

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Ports of Auckland buys world’s first electric tug; 70-tonne bollard pull

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Ports of Auckland (New Zealand) has signed a contract with Dutch company Damen Shipyards to buy the world’s first full-size, fully electric port tug. The new tug, a Damen RSD-E Tug 2513 to be delivered in 2021, will have a 70-tonne bollard pull, the same as the port’s strongest diesel tug Hauraki , also built by Damen.

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Why Mexico builds many US-bound EVs but buys few of them

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The reason behind it isn't a culture clash or a lack of concern for the environment. Mexico will soon build large numbers of EVs, but most will go north to the U.S. rather than being sold domestically. It's a matter of economics and practicality.

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Survey finds big shift in UK buyers’ attitude to diesel; more concern over running costs than environment

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Intelligence survey results, which indicate that more than seven in 10 would be likely or very likely to choose a gasoline car, compared with the four in 10 who would consider buying a diesel. Buyers appear not to be overly concerned about environmental factors. — Steve Huntingford, What Car?